
If Walls Could Talk
The High Price of a Picture-Perfect Family
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
One woman's incredible true story as a survivor of partner abuse—and the shocking murder that ended it all. How could I have let this happen? This was the torturous question circling through Sandee Jo Schankweiler's mind as flashing red and blue lights cast eerie images against the backdrop of trees surrounding her home in rural Tennessee. In disbelief, she watched as a police officer placed his hand on the top of her seventeen-year-old son's head to guide him into the back seat of a patrol car. For years, Sandee Jo had lived on "Someday Isle." Someday, she would escape her abusive husband, Tommy. Someday, her children would be safe. Someday, she would live free from fear. But now, her worst fears had come true. Her husband, Tommy, lay dead from a gunshot wound to the head. He would terrorize his family no longer, but their safety had come at an unimaginable price. Sandee Jo watched as the police cruiser drove away into the night, her gentle first-born son's face expressionless through the window. How could this have happened? In this riveting memoir, Sandee Jo Crocker shares her story to empower those enduring partner abuse to break free, and to equip those who love them to advocate on their behalf, as she shares dark secrets which previously could only have been revealed... If walls could talk.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- A Note from Sandee Jo
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Incriminating Evidence
- Chapter 2: Growing Pains and Palm Trees
- Chapter 3: Mr. Right
- Chapter 4: Dating the Prince
- Chapter 5: Kidnapped at the Wedding
- Chapter 6: The Honeymoon Is Over
- Chapter 7: Mind Control
- Chapter 8: Baby Blues
- Chapter 9: Trapped
- Chapter 10: Hidden Bruises, Unseen Wounds
- Chapter 11: Goodbye, Nana
- Chapter 12: Juiced!
- Chapter 13: Medicating the Madness
- Chapter 14: Pet Cemetery
- Chapter 15: The Near-Deadly 911 Call
- Chapter 16: Why Did I Stay? Why Didn’t I Tell?
- Chapter 17: Missionary Madness
- Chapter 18: Breakdown!
- Chapter 19: Enabling the Disabled
- Chapter 20: Tennessee on My Mind
- Chapter 21: Moonshine Madness
- Chapter 22: Do We Really Need a Harley?
- Chapter 23: Canned Tomato Terror
- Chapter 24: Good Dad; Demonic Dad
- Chapter 25: Kill Me!
- Chapter 26: The Phone Call Out of the Blue
- Chapter 27: A Dark Good Friday
- Chapter 28: God, Where Are You?
- Chapter 29: Dad Won’t Hurt Us Anymore
- Chapter 30: Incarceration
- Chapter 31: Finding a Lawyer
- Chapter 32: Honoring One Who Doesn’t Deserve It
- Chapter 33: Compassion and Protection
- Chapter 34: From Nightmares to Answered Prayers
- Chapter 35: Project Fresh Start
- Chapter 36: Released
- Chapter 37: A Mountaintop Experience
- Chapter 38: Move That Tractor!
- Chapter 39: The Return of the Gregarious Groomsman
- Chapter 40: Speaking Out at Last
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Resources
- Endnotes
- Copyright